Saturday, June 2, 2012

Democrats, Unions and the Jurassic Press have been
campaigning and spending $millions to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The
recall is in a few days, June 6. For the past few weeks it looks like the
Leftists will be defeated. Now the Democrats and the rest are reverse spinning
and saying it’s not such a big deal. Right.

Leftists are against anything that works for anybody else
but themselves. Their whole gig is to get taxpayer money for spending to keep
themselves in power and money. One would think policies eliminating debt, saving money
and creating jobs would be a good thing. Not if you’re a Democrat, Leftist,
union member.

State employees were paying nothing up to 6% for their
health care premiums. Total compensation for a Wisconsin
employee last year was $71,000. Employees in the MilwaukeePublicSchool District had
$101,091 compensation. All the protests in the CapitolBuilding, the death threats against Walker and his family,
Leftists going to the homes of Republican legislators and all the rest was because
they raised a little bit the amount government employees had to pay for their
own health care premiums and pensions. He required them to contribute to their
own health insurance 12.6% and their own pensions 5%.

Some of the savings went to this horrible project; the Brown
Deer school district is now able to build a new school, 68% of the cost of the
$22 million coming from the savings generated by Walker’s policies. Democrats are against new
schools.

Medicaid is supposed to be financed by States. Because of
his policies, funding for it increased by $1.2 billion. By the way, no taxes
were increased to do this. Democrats think the only solution to anything is to
raise taxes, rather than find a way to solve a problem. Looks like Democrats
are against financing Medicaid.

Wisconsin’s
unemployment rate has dropped to 6.8%. Part of that was very helpful keeping
teachers employed. They were facing massive layoffs. Paying for all the goodies
like pensions and health couldn’t be afforded for so many teachers. Democrat's response was to fire a bunch of them. Walker’s
policies kept teachers employed. There are some school districts that did not
implement Walker’s
policy of increased health and pension payments. They had to lay off a lot of
teachers. Democrats are against employed teachers.

Democrats campaigning against him, most notably Milwaukee
Mayor Tom Barrett have no plan to balance the budget, cut costs, fund Medicare,
or pay for anything except by raising taxes. What they’ve done for two years instead is investigate Walker for criminal charges
from his county-executive days. They netted some people from that office that
engaged in some crimes, but nothing on Walker.
By the way, Mayor Barrett benefitted from Walker’s
policies. The city is doing better financially than it has in years. They have a
balanced budget and $10 million surplus. Democrats are against balanced budgets
and government $urplus.

Massive demonstrations costing the State $millions for clean
up and repair, personal attacks, comparisons of Walker to Hitler and other
murderous dictators, protests at the homes of Republicans, vile insults,
Democrats fleeing the State so they wouldn’t have to vote on Walker’s proposed
policies, and they only thing they offer is to go back to public employees not
paying for their benefits and higher taxes. Democrats hate solutions that work.

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Steven L Dexter

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Live and work in Las Vegas. Attend First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Las Vegas. I served in Vietnam from December 1969 to February 1971 in the 11th Armored Cav..."I" Troop... where I drove a tank, and Air Cav in the ARP's (Aero Rifle Platoon). Also served in the Navy from 1976 to 1980 on the USS Cayuga and USS Duluth. I graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1974 with a degree in social work. I spent two years hitching and working in the oil patch in Wyoming as a roughneck. Lived for about 25 years in San Diego, my favorite city. I'm proud to be Christian, Soldier, Sailor, Conservative.

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"G-Man" *** Stephen Hunter Superb writing, well reseached and infomative as well as complelling and entertaining. Hunter has a recurring character in his novels, Bob Lee Swagger, and this is one of them. Highly recommended.

"Hot Springs" *** Part of the Swagger series, this one with Earl Swagger. Mindless good storytelling.

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"Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead" ** Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg is a Lefitst Feminst that has been high up at Google and Facebook. She accidently stumbles on a couple good points. Uses dated stats to support her observations. This was read for a bookclub on women in leadership. We had good discusssions from a not very good book.

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